It turns out my series of efforts to improve the BBC News RSS feeds are more-popular than I thought. People keep asking for variants of them, and it’s probably time I stopped hosting the resulting feeds on my NAS (which does a good job, but it’s in a highly-kickable place right under my desk).
So I’ve launched BBC-Feeds.DanQ.dev. On a 20-minute schedule, it generates both UK and World editions of the BBC News feeds, filtered to remove iPlayer, Sounds, app “nudges”, duplicates, and other junk, and optionally with the sports news filtered out too.
The entire thing is open source under an ultra-permissive license, so you can run your own copy if you don’t want to use mine.
Enjoy!
After “fixing” BBC News’ RSS feeds I noticed that I was seeing less news (and, somehow, stressing less over everything happening in the USA). Turns out that in switching myself to my new system I’d subscribed to the UK edition, whereas previously I’d been on the Full edition. I’ve corrected it now i
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Hi. Please may I ask if, it’s not too much trouble of course, if it’s possible to add modified feeds for BBC Africa and BBC India, in a similar way you have for BBC World. i.e. thinking about repeated articles in these feeds too. Thanks (again, if it’s not too much trouble)
I’ve done that now; you should find BBC News Africa and BBC News India on the feeds site.
Thank you! I didn’t expect this so quickly. Thank you again
Hi Dan, I have been using your feeds and find them excellent. Is there any chance you would be able to add https://feeds.bbci.co.uk/sport/scotland/rss.xml and https://feeds.bbci.co.uk/sport/rss.xml as individual feeds?
Unfortunately my tech skills leave much to be desired so would be forever grateful.
Thanks :)
That’s done for you now, David. Adding feeds that are exclusively of sports news like those you suggested was a hair more-complex than any of the existing editions (which are all “full” editions either inclusive or exclusive of sports news), so I used adding the feeds you suggested as an excuse to refactor and make the whole thing a little more-sophisticated… as well as adding an indication that I’m happy to add other editions for people if they like!